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...subtitle: They Stole $2,500,000 and Got Away with It. That is more or less what happened five years ago in Boston when a well-organized band of crooks relieved Brinks, Inc. of its clients' assets. Jerry Florea (Tony Curtis), a born organizer, rises from a Boston gutter to mastermind the multimillion-dollar robbery. Policeman Ed Gallagher (George Nader), Jerry's longtime friendly enemy, cannot break his alibi. Just as Jerry is about to split the take, it turns out that the story idea was only half right for Hollywood. Jaws drop, eyes pop, and guys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 28, 1955 | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

...fear of the ascendancy of a Negro to our presidency, as expressed by the benighted and misled Givhan, is reaching into the gutter for an excuse to justify Givhan's intolerance toward his fellow Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 17, 1955 | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

...weak in Lunatics and Lovers, and at times the inspiration seems even weaker. And hand in hand with a good pungent coarseness in the characters themselves goes a certain touch of vulgarity in the treatment of them. Nor, for all its lowdownness, is Lunatics and Lovers quite to the gutter born, with a truly deep-seated sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Dec. 27, 1954 | 12/27/1954 | See Source »

...mehitabel, the life-battered but life-loving cat ("toujours gai, toujours gai") who is pretty sure she is a reincarnation of Cleopatra, the hottest cat on the Nile. The libretto is somewhat bowdlerized (gone is mehitabel's running refrain of "wottheheli wotthehell"), but the original's splendid gutter lyricism is still there: wind come out of the north and pierce to the guts within but some day mehitabel s guts will string a violin

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Nights in Shinbone Alley | 12/20/1954 | See Source »

...Gutter. In Compton, Calif., James A. Beasley was fined $100 for reckless flying, despite his explanation that "I was flying too low because my wife wanted to point out the bowling alley where she bowled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 8, 1954 | 11/8/1954 | See Source »

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